Robert Nash Ogden Jr (May 5, 1839 – April 16, 1905
[Law Notes, June 1905, p 57]
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lieutenant colonel, judge, orator, poet, lawyer and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
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.
Robert Nash Ogden Jr was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 5, 1839,[Robert Nash Ogden-- Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry]
/ref> to Robert Nash Ogden and Frances Sophia Nicholson.[Wheeler, William Ogden, Lawrence Van Alstyne, and Charles Burr Ogden. 1907. ''The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants,'' 1640-1906. Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co. pp 360-62, 445-46]
/ref> He attended the University of North Carolina
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for two and a half years.[''Chi Psi. 1902. The sixth decennial catalogue'' p. 310]
/ref> He studied law under Frederick Nash at Hillsboro, North Carolina. During the American Civil War
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he served under Brigadier General James Patrick Major
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U.S. Cavalry service
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for the Confederate Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. When the war was over he returned to Louisiana and entered politics. After having been elected to the State Legislature, he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1880–1884).orator
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Etymology
Recorded in English c. 1374, with a meaning of "one who pleads or argues for a cause", from Anglo-French ''oratour'', Old French ''orateur'' (14 ...
as well as devoting his time to writing works of literature such as ''Who did it? - A novel''(1870)[''Who did it? a novel.''(1870) by Robert Nash Ogden--Wright American Fiction 1851-1875-- Indiana University Digital Library Program]
/ref> ''Dreams of the past!'' and ''The Light of Thine Eyes''.The Louisiana Book: Selections from the Literature of the State P 574577
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He is the father of author Edith Ogden Harrison and the father-in-law of Carter Harrison IV
Carter Henry Harrison IV (April 23, 1860 – December 25, 1953) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician who served a total of five terms as mayor of Chicago (1897–1905 and 1911–1915) b ...
(who served as mayor of Chicago
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).
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1839 births
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Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Louisiana lawyers
Confederate States Army officers
19th-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature